Since 2020, currency individual residents of the Russian Federation are required to submit notices to the tax authorities on opening (closing, changing details) accounts opened not only with foreign banks, but also with other financial institutions.
Alexey Oskin

Alexey Oskin
Deputy Director
Tax and Legal Practice
Korpus Prava (Russia)

The supervisory authorities are paying more attention to the practical application of the concept of the actual income recipient. Everyone has heard the recent cases against such companies as "Northern Kuzbass" (A27-7455/2010), "Naryanmarneftegas" (A40-1164/2011), "OriflameCosmetics" (A40-138879/2014), etc.

For a long time, closed-end mutual real estate investment funds have been an effective legal tool of tax planning, which taxpayers used to defer profit tax or to avoid profit tax completely on quite legitimate grounds. Thus, today there is a quite common practice, when real estate located in [...]

For most taxpayers 2015 was quite eventful and crucial. This year, a lot of amendments were introduced to the tax law, which on one part aimed at crackdown in relations between the state and the taxpayer, and on the other part, during the transition period Russian taxpayers have been [...]